Monday, September 30, 2013

WIN A FREE SIGNED COPY You may know the cover characters, Delphine Lalaurie and Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau,from having taken a haunted tour in New Orleans, visiting the Conti Wax Museum, or watching American Horror Story on TV. Now you can discover the entire history and the best of the urban legend in this 5 star reviewed page-turner by T.R. Heinan. Here’s what readers are saying in Amazon reviews:“Descriptions of the different types of bigotry and racial history, such as the "Code Noir", are nothing short of amazing”, “I could not put this book down” “I was up all night reading” “The grizzly detail of the legend, the horrific acts, and the way T.R. Heinan described them sent chills up my spine” “The history is right on and he really brought the characters to life for his readers”

This is a
fictional story woven around the true history of Delphine Lalaurie whose desire
for immortality came true, as her name will always be linked to the history of
New Orleans. She beat and mistreated her slaves and sanctioned her husband's
gruesome experiments in the name of science. Their antebellum mansion in the
French Quarter has been preserved and today is said to be one of the most
haunted houses in New Orleans, where the cries of the tortured and dismembered
slaves can still be heard.The story revolves around Phillipe Bertrand, the
Saint Louis Cathedral's lay sacristan and the kindly Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau,
and their combined efforts to save a slave child and end the torture to the
other slaves in the mansion.The book is filled with hidden innuendo.
Bertrand lives in a yellow brick house where today a yellow brick building
actually exists, on Pirate's Alley, which becomes a metaphorical brick road for
him. He gives the runaway slave girl Elise bread, and later pours her
wine.Marie Laveau practices voodoo but is also a regular member of the
Catholic Church, and in reality, New Orleans is probably the only place in the
world where the two come together today.The story moves at a fast pace and
is hard to put down.The characters from the book are soon to be used by the
hit TV series American Horror Story.